Don't want to wait for Silverlight 3 to get your FLV support?

Yesterday, at the IAB conference in Amsterdam, “The Gu” announced that coming in a new version of the Silverlight runtime would be full support for the H.264 video format. H264 is a standard video specification that delivers high-definition video over a variety of delivery channels. Up until now, Microsoft has focused on VC-1 which powers Windows media and all of it’s descendant flavours.

For Silverlight, this is a big thing, as it brings the runtime more into line with the movie industry which is pretty much focused on H.264 and AAC (something which Apple and Flash Player 9 are fully supporting as well).  At the moment this is looking like it will be in the Silverlight 3 release which is an unknown distance in the future (Silverlight 2 isn’t out for another few weeks).

However, if you’re going to the ReMIX conference in Brighton next week, you’ll be able to come and talk to us on Gold Stand 2 about our new product mono.FLV which we are releasing at the conference.

mono.FLV is a IIS7 Server extension that is able to convert and deliver FLV (H.264) video to Silverlight and other Windows Media Video compatible clients in real time, saving the converted output to disk for re-use another time.  Thanks to unique technology the process is totally invisible. mono.FLV intercepts incoming FLV requests and using internal algorithms decides to stream or playback requested video using WMV1 codec.  mono.FLV therefore reduces the amount of work required to put into place the delivery of a large FLV movie library to Silverlight enabled visitors.

Posted by Neil Middleton on 10 Sep 2008